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Note for: Sara Brayley, 25 MAR 1707 -
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Alias: /braley/
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Note for: Chaumont Demaranville, 22 FEB 1730/31 - 1800
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Alias: chomont /De Merenvill/
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Note for: John Louis DeMaranville, 1684 - 28 SEP 1772
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Alias: /Dumeranvill/
Individual Note: (said to be survivor of same shipwreck as Pierre CRAPO)
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Note for: Louis Demaronville, ABT 1660 -
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Alias: /lewis/
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Note for: Perro Crapoo, ABT 1679 - ABT 1756
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Alias: Peter /Crapo/, Pierre Crépaux
Individual Note: From the web site of Richley H. Crapo http://barney.usu.edu/~FATH6/PCclan.html-
"It is very likely that Peter Crapo (originally Pierre Crépaux) was born France, probably near Bordeaux, perhaps as early as 1668. According to the tradition of many of his descendents, Peter was one of five survivors of a shipwreck off Buzzard's Bay, Massachussetts, around 1680-82. Family legends from various descent lines suggest that his brother "Francis" was also a survivor, and may have been the captain of the ill-fated ship. Francis is said to have placed young Peter as a bond servant to one Francis Coombs (who died in 1682), a tavern owner in North Rochester, Massachussets, in return for the price of his return passage to France. Despite the promise that he would return for Peter, this never occurred, and the North American Crapo family owes its existence to this unkept promise.
Peter worked his way out of bondservice and went on to become a relatively well-off landowner through his hard work In 1704, he married Penelope White, granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Resolved White and his wife Judith Vassal. The couple's home still stands in Rochester. According to Henry H. Crapo, in his book Certain Comeoverers, "In 1755 he entered into an agreement with two neighbors to put a ditch through their several properties 'to let the alewives get from Mattapoisett River to Sniptuit Pond.' This ditch still remains and each spring the alewives returning from the south jump the weir at Mattapoisett and find their way to the Pond, where in the shallow water near Peter Crapo's islands they cast their spawn. His homestead was on the west side of the road which skirts Sniptuit on its westerly side." Peter and his sons earned their livings by cutting timber from his land around the pond. At his death, he owned several hundred acres there. His will was signed in 1756 less than three months before his death.
Recently, Mrs. Ruth Marie Butler has uncovered a possible family of origin for Peter Crapo: Pierre Crépaux, born about 1657, and resident of l'isl d'Elvire, Saint-Sebastien, la Tremblade, France. This Pierre had a son, Francois, who was recorded as the commanding captain of a ship named Bonaventure in a record recording his marriage in Port Royale, Canada, on 9 September 1705 to Marie Mius, daughter of Abraham Mius "sieur d'Plemarche", France, and Marguerite de Saint-Etienne de la Tour, France. Though the connection is yet to be proved, it is a promising one, since the traditions of many of Peter's descendents identify his brother as having born the name Francis and as having been the captain of the ship which was wrecked at Buzzard's Bay and remember his name as Francis. Family legend also points to the area of France near Bordeaux as the place of Peter's origin, and l'isl d'Elvire is on the coast not far from that city. So, this Francois makes a very good candidate for Peter's brother, having the right name, the right occupation at the right time, and the right place of origin for that person. As Ruth points out, how many ship's captains named Francois Crépaux are there likely to have been from the west coast of France near Bordeaux at the same period of history? "
The Last Will and Testament of Peter Crapo
Submitted by Gerald H. Crapo
(spellings and punctuation in context)
Peter Crapo's will-
In the name of God Amen - this 20th day of February A.D. 1756 I Peter
Crapo of Rochester in the County of Plimouth Yeoman do make this my
Last Will and Testament. First I recommend my Soul to God who Gave it &
my body to the Ground to be buried in a decent Christian Buriall @@ the
discretion of my Exeer hereafter named, and as Touching such worldly
Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me, I Give and Dispose of the
same in the following manner and form. Imprs. I give and Bequeath to my
Loving wife Ann Crapo all the Household Goods and Stuf She brought to me
@@ time of Marriage, and also I give her a Suitable maintenance both in
Sickness and in health to be Provided for her by my three Sons hereafter
Enjoyned to the Same and said Meantenance and Support to be what may
be for her Comfortable Subsistance in every Respect according to her age &
Quality.
Item - I Give to my son Frances Crapo and to his Heirs and assigns forever,
the Dwelling House and land he now lives on being in Rochester aforesd,
Being all my Lands on the Easterly Side the Ditch or Brook running out of
the South West corner Sniptuit Pond having ad. Pond on the north, Nicholas
and Seth Crapo's Land on the South, the Long Pond So called, and other
mens Land on the East Together with my Two Islands in said Sniptuit pond,
he paying so much of the Bond I have on him to four Daughters Hereafter
named as I shall assign with in twelve Months after my decrease.
Item - I Give to my Three Sons Peter Crapo, Junr. John Crapo and Hezekiah
Crapo, and to their Heirs and assigns forever in Equall Shares all my other
Estate both Real and Personall not before Disposed off, in this my will nor
by Deeds excepting the Bond abovesaid on my son Francis, they Paying
my Just Debts and Funerall charges, and Providing for their said Hond.
Mother, in Law my Wido, as above Expressed, and after my decease
Deliver to her the Household Goods and Stuf She Brought to me @@ time of
Marriage.
Item - I Give to my son Nicholas Crapo five Shillings Money and that with
what I have already given him, to be his Proportion of my Estate.
Item - I Give to my son Seth Crapo five Shillings money and that with what I
have already given him, to be his portion of my Estate.
Item - I Give to my four daughters, viz. Susannah Damoranvill, Mary
Spooner, Elizabeth Luke, and Rebecca Mathews Twenty Dollars to each of
them, to be paid them by my said son Francis Six months after my
decease, and it is to be in full discharge of the Bond aforesaid, and if either
of my said four Daughers shall dye before Payment then to be Payd to their
Heirs - Furthermore it is my Will That I have herein given my Son John
Crapoo, is to be accounted in full Discharge of any and all demand he may
make on my Estate for anything contracted before the Date hereof.
Finally I do hereby Constitute and appoint my Son Hezekiah Crapoo Sole
Executor of this my Last will and Testament and I do hereby Revoke and
Disanull all former Wills by me heretofore made Ratifying and Confirming
this and no Other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I
have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and Year first above writen.
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Note for: Penelope White, 12 MAR 1686/87 - BEF 23 NOV 1738
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Alias: /Penelobe/
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Note for: Joshua Ells, 9 NOV 1712 - JAN 1797
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Event: Type: Misc
Date: 1774
Place: CT
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Note for: Samuel Ells, 1 MAY 1640 - 21 APR 1709
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Individual Note: JOHN EELES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor, Dorchester
RETURN TRIPS: Returned to England permanently after 1641
OCCUPATION: Planter, yeoman [Lechford 421, 424].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church before 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. Admission to Windsor church before 3 May 1640 implied by baptism of son Samuel.
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: Sufficient to act as constable, and keep the accounts necessary for that office.
OFFICES: At some date between 1638 and 1642 some Dorchester resident "audited 2 accounts of country rates and one about the neck with John Eales for the time of his constableship wherein he hath cleared all" [DTR 282].
ESTATE: Granted a great lot of twenty acres at Dorchester [DTR 14]; Mrs. Johnson was granted one acre of meadow "next Goodman Eales pale," 27 June 1636 [DTR 16]; granted two acres meadow "between that meadow he hath of Mrs. Johnson and the creek," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]; with five other men granted "ground about Rocky Hill ... in community amongst them," 5 July 1636 [DTR 18]; granted five and a half acres and twenty rods in the neck, and the same amount in the cow's pasture, 18 March 1637/8 [DTR 30]; granted "a small parcel of upland ground lying between his marsh and Mr. Hawkins ground a little below his house," 29 September 1640 [DTR 43]; granted meadow beyond Naponset River, acreage not stated [DTR 321].
On 22 February 1638/9 John Eells sold to Mr. Mather his land in Dorchester Neck, five and a half acres and twenty rods [DTR 43]. On 28 October 1640 "John Eells of Dorchester" sold to Nathaniel Patten "all his dwelling houses and other outhousing thereto belonging with all his lands in propriety or common" [DTR 43].
On 8 July 1641 Thomas Allen of Barnstable in New England sold to "John Eells of Dorchester in New England planter" for £70 "one house & garden with the appurtenances in Barnstable in the County of Devon lying on Bowport Street" with the provision "that if the said John Eells die at sea without heirs then the premsises shall be & remain to the said Thomas Allen" [Lechford 418, 421-23]. On 15 July 1641 Thomas Allen and John Eells made further financial agreements, and Allen executed a power of attorney in favor of Eells to collect debts in England [Lechford 423-25, 427].
BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated year of birth of presumed elder son.
DEATH: England after 1641.
MARRIAGE: By 1624 _____ _____; not seen in any record in New England.
CHILDREN:
i (poss.) JOHN, b. say 1624; "John Eales Junior" appointed Dorchester cowkeeper, 8 June 1640 [DTR 43]; no further record.
ii SAMUEL, bp. Dorchester 3 May 1640 "his father being member of the church of Windsor was by communion of churches baptized" [DChR 149, 152]; m. (1) Lynn 4 or 5 August 1663 Anna Lenthal [Lynn VR 2:336 (groom's name read as "Samuel Salls"); Milford CT VR 1:18], daughter of Rev. Robert Lenthal; m. (2) Milford 22 August 1689 Sarah (Bateman) North, daughter of John Bateman, and widow of Edward North [TAG 35:207-10 (she did not marry first Joseph Peck as some sources state)].
COMMENTS: John Insley Coddington has raised the possibility that John Eells came from the vicinity of Chichester, Sussex [TAG 43:147]. A more likely possibility, based on his residence in Dorchester and Windsor, and his transactions with Thomas Allen in 1641 just before his return to England, is that he was from Barnstable, Devonshire, or somewhere in that area. In this connection, this John Eells may be the same as the "John Iles of Dorchester in New England" who in January 1638/9 gave to Thomas Marshfield of Windsor £28 which the latter was to pay to Adam Hurden of Barnstable, Devonshire, to whom Iles owed the sum; Henry Woolcot and William Gaylord were sureties for Marshfield in this matter on 29 July 1639 [Lechford 136-37].
A detailed examination of son Samuel and his descendants may be found in Eells Family History In America, 1633-1952 (n.d., n.p.) by Rev. Myron Eells et al.
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Note for: John Eells, 1579 - 5 SEP 1662
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Event: Type: Misc
Date: 1624
Place: Married
Individual Note: JOHN EELES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor, Dorchester
RETURN TRIPS: Returned to England permanently after 1641
OCCUPATION: Planter, yeoman [Lechford 421, 424].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church before 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. Admission to Windsor church before 3 May 1640 implied by baptism of son Samuel.
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: Sufficient to act as constable, and keep the accounts necessary for that office.
OFFICES: At some date between 1638 and 1642 some Dorchester resident "audited 2 accounts of country rates and one about the neck with John Eales for the time of his constableship wherein he hath cleared all" [DTR 282].
ESTATE: Granted a great lot of twenty acres at Dorchester [DTR 14]; Mrs. Johnson was granted one acre of meadow "next Goodman Eales pale," 27 June 1636 [DTR 16]; granted two acres meadow "between that meadow he hath of Mrs. Johnson and the creek," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]; with five other men granted "ground about Rocky Hill ... in community amongst them," 5 July 1636 [DTR 18]; granted five and a half acres and twenty rods in the neck, and the same amount in the cow's pasture, 18 March 1637/8 [DTR 30]; granted "a small parcel of upland ground lying between his marsh and Mr. Hawkins ground a little below his house," 29 September 1640 [DTR 43]; granted meadow beyond Naponset River, acreage not stated [DTR 321].
On 22 February 1638/9 John Eells sold to Mr. Mather his land in Dorchester Neck, five and a half acres and twenty rods [DTR 43]. On 28 October 1640 "John Eells of Dorchester" sold to Nathaniel Patten "all his dwelling houses and other outhousing thereto belonging with all his lands in propriety or common" [DTR 43].
On 8 July 1641 Thomas Allen of Barnstable in New England sold to "John Eells of Dorchester in New England planter" for £70 "one house & garden with the appurtenances in Barnstable in the County of Devon lying on Bowport Street" with the provision "that if the said John Eells die at sea without heirs then the premsises shall be & remain to the said Thomas Allen" [Lechford 418, 421-23]. On 15 July 1641 Thomas Allen and John Eells made further financial agreements, and Allen executed a power of attorney in favor of Eells to collect debts in England [Lechford 423-25, 427].
BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated year of birth of presumed elder son.
DEATH: England after 1641.
MARRIAGE: By 1624 _____ _____; not seen in any record in New England.
CHILDREN:
i (poss.) JOHN, b. say 1624; "John Eales Junior" appointed Dorchester cowkeeper, 8 June 1640 [DTR 43]; no further record.
ii SAMUEL, bp. Dorchester 3 May 1640 "his father being member of the church of Windsor was by communion of churches baptized" [DChR 149, 152]; m. (1) Lynn 4 or 5 August 1663 Anna Lenthal [Lynn VR 2:336 (groom's name read as "Samuel Salls"); Milford CT VR 1:18], daughter of Rev. Robert Lenthal; m. (2) Milford 22 August 1689 Sarah (Bateman) North, daughter of John Bateman, and widow of Edward North [TAG 35:207-10 (she did not marry first Joseph Peck as some sources state)].
COMMENTS: John Insley Coddington has raised the possibility that John Eells came from the vicinity of Chichester, Sussex [TAG 43:147]. A more likely possibility, based on his residence in Dorchester and Windsor, and his transactions with Thomas Allen in 1641 just before his return to England, is that he was from Barnstable, Devonshire, or somewhere in that area. In this connection, this John Eells may be the same as the "John Iles of Dorchester in New England" who in January 1638/9 gave to Thomas Marshfield of Windsor £28 which the latter was to pay to Adam Hurden of Barnstable, Devonshire, to whom Iles owed the sum; Henry Woolcot and William Gaylord were sureties for Marshfield in this matter on 29 July 1639 [Lechford 136-37].
A detailed examination of son Samuel and his descendants may be found in Eells Family History In America, 1633-1952 (n.d., n.p.) by Rev. Myron Eells et al.
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Note for: Robert Lenthal, 1600 - 1658
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Event: Type: Misc
Date: 1631
Place: Greatham
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Note for: Patience Soule, BET 1630 AND 1648 - 11 MAR 1705/06
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Alias: /Soul/
Individual Note: From The Great Migration Begins:
On 26 January 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury deeded to "Patience Haskall his true and natural daughter and unto John Haskall her husband" his half share of land at Namassakett [ MD 27:40, citing PCLR 3:153]
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Note for: Roger Haskell, 6 MAR 1612/13 - ABT 27 MAY 1667
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Individual Note: from the Rootsweb posting of David Haskell:Roger Haskell, in the company of his brother and sister, William and Joan, his step-father and mother, John and Elinor Stone, and perhaps two sons of John Stone's previous marriage, sailed from England probably in the spring of 1635 and settled in the "Basse River" section (Cape Ann side, now Beverly) of Salem, Massachusetts.
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Note for: Elizabeth Hardy, BET 1617 AND 1623 - JUL 1672
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Event: Type: Misc
Place: Alternate dates born 1620 in England died 1676